Hide a Layer

A hidden layer is not rendered. If a group layer is set to be hidden then all its descendants are not rendered either.

l_layer_hide(widget, layer)

Arguments

widget	widget path or layer object of class 'l_layer'
layer	layer id. If the widget argument is of class 'l_layer' then the layer argument is not used

Value

0 if success otherwise the function throws an error

Details

Visibile layers are rendered, invisible ones are not. If any ancestor of a layer is set to be invisible then the layer is not rendered either. The layer visibility flag can be checked with l_layer_isVisible and the actual visibility (i.e. are all the ancesters visibile too) can be checked with l_layer_layerVisibility.

Note that layer visibility is not a state of the layer itself, instead is information that is part of the layer collection (i.e. its parent widget).

See also

l_layer, l_layer_show, l_layer_isVisible, l_layer_layerVisibility, l_layer_groupVisibility

Examples

if(interactive()){

p <- l_plot()

l <- l_layer_rectangle(p, x=0:1, y=0:1, color="steelblue")
l_layer_hide(p, l)

}